BA English Syllabus

BA English

Semester I

Language I

English I -100L1Z

Unit – I:

SELF-AWARENESS(WHO) & POSITIVE THINKING(UNICEF)

  • Life Story
    1.1 Chapter 1 from MalalaYousafzai, I am Malala
    1.2 An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Chapters 1, 2 & 3)
    M.K.Gandhi
  • Poem
    1.3 Where the Mind is Without Fear – Gitanjali 35 

    Rabindranath Tagore
    1.4 Love Cycle – Chinua Achebe

Unit – II:

EMPATHY

  • Poem
    2.1 Nine Gold Medals – David Roth
    2.2 Alice Fell or poverty – William Wordsworth
  • Short Story
    2.3 The School for Sympathy – E.V. Lucas
    2.4 Barn Burning – William Faulkner

Unit – III:

CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKING

  • Poem
    3.1 The Things That Haven’t Been Done Before – Edgar Guest
    3.2 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
  • Readers Theatre
    3.3 The Magic Brocade – A Tale of China
    3.4 Stories on Stage – Aaron Shepard (Three Sideway Stories from Wayside School” by Louis
    Sachar)

Unit – IV:

Part of Speech

4.1 Articles
4.2 Noun
4.3 Pronoun
4.4 Verb
4.5 Adverb
4.6 Adjective
4.7 Preposition

Unit – V:

Paragraph and Essay Writing

5.1 Descriptive
5.2 Expository
5.3 Persuasive
5.4 Narrative

Reading Comprehension

Core Paper I –Introduction to English Literature -105C1A

Unit I 

Introduction to the Study of Literature
What is Literature?
Why Study Literature?
Ways of Studying Literature.
Literary Forms.

Unit II

Poetry: Forms of Poetry: Ballad, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy
Representative texts:
“Robinhood & The Monk” Robert Jamieson
“The Parting” Michael Drayton
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)
“When I Consider How My Light is Spent” John Milton
“Ode to a Nightingale” John Keats
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Thomas Gray

Unit III

Prose: Aphoristic Essay, Personal Essay
Representative text:
“Dream-Children: A Reverie” Charles Lamb

Unit IV

Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, Tragi-Comedy
Representative text:
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare

Unit V

Short Stories: Definition, features & types
Representative texts:
“How Much Land Does a Man Need? ” Leo Tolstoy
“The Diamond Necklace” Guy de Maupassant
“Garden Party” Katherine Mansfield

Core Paper II -Indian Writing in English-105C1B

Unit I

Introduction
Beginnings of Indian Writing in English, Macaulay’s Minutes, The Renaissance in Modern India, Pre and Post-Independence Indian Writing in English,
Indian English Fiction – 1980-2000.

Unit II

Poetry
“Our Casuarina Tree” Toru Dutt
“Coromandel Fishers” Sarojini Naidu
“Night of the Scorpion” Nissim Ezekiel
“The Bus” Arun Kolatkar
“Indian Women” Shiv K Kumar
“Narcissus” Easterine Kire

Unit III 

Prose
“Religion in a Changing World” Dr.Radhakrishnan
(Religion, Science and Culture)
“Freedom From the Known”- Chapter 6 J. Krishnamurti

Unit IV

Drama
Dance like a Man Mahesh Dattani

Unit V

Short Story
“Handful of Nuts” Ruskin Bond
“Laburnum for my Head” Temsula Ao
Fiction
Kanthapura Raja Rao

Elective I - Social History of England-I-105E1A

Unit I

The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation and Counter Reformation, Puritanism, Colonialism

Unit II

The Restoration England, The Origin and Growth of Political Parties in England, Hanoverian England

Unit III

Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian and the French Revolutions on the English Society, Humanitarian Movements in England

Unit IV

The Reform Bills and the Spread of Education- Social impact of the two World Wars, the Welfare State, the Labour Movement

Unit V

The Cold War (1985-1991)- The Falkland War (1981)-The Gulf War (1991). Twenty first Century England – Brexit

SEC – 1 - English for Communication-105S1A/Basic Tamil-100S1A/Advanced Tamil -100S1B

English  for Communication

Unit I

Communication: Basic Communication Styles- Passive, Aggressive, AssertivePersuasive, Significance of communication.

Unit II

Types of communication-Verbal-Non-Verbal.

Unit III

Effective communication skills

Unit IV

Skills to be acquired in communication – Speaking/reading/writing/listening

Unit V

Application of different types / styles of communication skills (LSRW) in different situations / contexts

Foundation Course FC - Fundamental Framework for Reading English Literature-105B1A

Unit I

Literature and Humanities – Understanding Literature and its relevance to life,
Intersections with other disciplines

Unit II

Empathy and Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusivity – Writings across genres,
gender, culture, community, boundaries and binaries.

Unit III

The Way with Words – Mastering Literary vocabulary – choosing the right
words to convey ideas effectively, What to Read and How to Write

Unit IV

Basic Structure of a Genre – Reading and appreciation of a poem, a play, a
short story, an essay

Unit V

The Notables – Nobel Laureates, Award winning Writers – An overview from
classical to contemporary literary icons.

Semester II

Language II

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English II - 100L2Z

Unit I

RESILIENCE

  • Poem
    1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest
    1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes
  • Short Story
    1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan
    1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving

Unit II

DECISION MAKING

  • Short Story
    2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter
    2.2 The Lady or the Tiger – Frank Stockton
  • Poem
    2.3 The Road not Taken – Robert Frost
    2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence

Unit III

PROBLEM SOLVING

  • Prose life Story
    3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy
  • Autobiography
    3.3 How frog Went to Heaven – A Tale of Angolo
    3.4 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Unit IV

Tenses

4.1 Present
4.2 Past
4.3 Future
4.4 Concord

Unit V

English in the Workplace
5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking
Clarification
5.2 Circular
5.3 Memo
5.4 Minutes of the Meeting

 

Core Paper III –British Literature–I-105C2A

Unit I 

1. Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. Alexander Pope – On Solitude
3. Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose
4. George Herbert – The Pulley

Unit II

1. Charles Lamb – Dissertation upon a Roast Pig
2. Oliver Goldsmith – A City Night- Piece
3. Sir Richard Steele – The Spectator Club
4. Joseph Addison –Household Superstitions

Unit III

John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi

Unit IV

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus

Unit V

Jonathan Swift –Gulliver’s Travels

Core Paper IV-American Literature-105C2B

Unit I 

Background: The First Frontier (Settlement of America) –The Puritans and the spread of Puritanism in America – Romanticism: Optimist and Pessimist – The Flowering of New England – The Transcendentalists – Writers of the South – Indian thought in Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman – Sacred Writings of the East.

Unit II

1. Walt Whitman – O Captain, My Captain!
2. Robert Frost – Birches
3. Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
4. Emily Dickinson – Because I Could not stop for Death
5. For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy
Harjo

Unit III

1. Alice Walker – “The Black Writer and the Southern Experience” from In
Search of our Mother’s Gardens
2. I have a Dream – Martin Luther King
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance

Unit IV

Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

Unit V

Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea

Elective II - Social History of England-II-105E2A

Unit I 

1. Tudor England
2. The Stuart Age
3. Age of Queen Anne

Unit II

1. The American War of Independence
2. Impact of the war on England
3. Rise of colonies in America

Unit III

1. Development of Transport and Communication in 19th century
2. Development of science and scientific discoveries in England and Europe in the 19th
century

Unit IV

1. Life in the 60s
2. Life in the 70s
3. Life in the 80s
4. Life in the 90s

Unit V

1. Contemporary England
2. Relationship with Scotland and Northern Ireland
3. The evolution of monarchy through the 20th and 21st century
4. Post Imperial and
5. multi-cultural Britain
6. English National Identity.

SEC – 2 -Public Speaking Skills-105S2A / Basic Tamil-II / Advanced Tamil-II

Public Speaking Skills

Unit I

Definition, Need and Significance of Public Speaking

Unit II

Elements of Public Speaking
Types of Public Speaking (Ceremonial, Demonstrative, Informative and
Persuasive)

Unit III

Techniques for Effective Public Speaking

Unit IV

Methods of Public Speaking
Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Speaking

Unit V

Students Activity- Choose a topic and speak in front of the Class.

SEC 3 - Digital Literacy and Concepts-105S2B

Unit I

1. Introduction to Digital Literacy and its types.
2. Digitizing Information.

Unit II

1. Values and Ethics of Digital Literacy
2. Significance of Digital Literacy
3. Characteristics of Digital Literacy
4. The role of Language in Digital Literacy

Unit III

1. Digital Media and its Types
2. Email, vlog, blog, twitter, Facebook, E-book.

Unit IV

Digital Literacy in Education

Unit V

Challenges in Digital Literacy

Semester III

Language II

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English II - 200L3Z

Unit I 

ACTIVE LISTENING

  • Short Story
    1.1 In a Grove – AkutagawaRyunosuke
    Translated from Japanese by Takashi Kojima
    1.2 The Gift of the Magi – O’ Henry
  • Prose
    1.3 Listening – Robin Sharma
    1.4 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – WangariMaatha

Unit II

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  • Prose
    2.1 Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka
    2.2 Of Friendship – Francis Bacon
  • Song on (Motivational/ Narrative)
    2.3 Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson
    2.4 And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

Unit III

COPING WITH STRESS

  • Poem
    3.1 Leisure – W.H. Davies
    3.2 Anxiety Monster – RhonaMcFerran
  • Readers Theatre
    3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran
    3.4 Where there is a Will – Mahesh Dattani

Unit IV

Grammar
4.1 Phrasal Verbs & Idioms
4.2 Modals and Auxiliaries
4.3 Verb Phrases – Gerund, Participle, Infinitive

Unit V

Composition/ Writing Skills
5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter , Letter of Application, Permission Letter
5.2 Drafting Invitations
5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

Core Paper V –British Literature-II-205C3A

Unit I

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
2. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
3. T.S.Eliot – The Waste Land – The Burial of the Dead
4. W.H.Auden – The Unknown Citizen
5. Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach

Unit II

1. G.K. Chesterton – Piece of Chalk
2. William Hazlitt – Indian Jugglers

Unit III

R.B. Sheridan – The School for Scandal

Unit IV 

Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native

Unit V

1. James Joyce – The Dead
2. Somerset Maugham – The Verger

Core Paper VI -Children’s Literature-205C3B

Unit I

Background Study:
1. Introduction: The World of Children’s Literature Studies by Peter Hunt.
2. Essentials: What is Children’s Literature? What is Childhood? By Karin LesnikOberatein (From Understanding Children’s Literature Eidted by Peter Hunt)

Unit II

Poetry
1. Edward Lear – The Owl and the Pussy Cat
2. Shel Silverstein – Invitation
3. Robert Louis Stevenson – My Shadow
4. Naomi Shihab Nye – Mystery

Unit III

Fantasy Fiction
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Unit IV

Realistic Fiction
R.K.Narayan – Swami and Friends

Unit V

Short Story
1. Mark Twain – The celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras County
2. Oscar Wilde – The Remarkable Rocket
3. Rumpelstiltskin – Brothers Grimm

Elective III -History of English Literature-I-205E3A

Unit I

PROSE
Early Prose- Sidney, Bacon, The Authorized Version of the Bible
Beginning of Modern English Prose- Addison, Steele, Johnson

Unit II

POETRY
14thCentury -Chaucer
Elizabethan & Jacobean Poetry- Characteristics with reference to Spenser, Donne Age of Milton – Milton
Neo-classical – Characteristics with reference to Dryden, Pope

Unit III

EARLYDRAMA
Early Drama -Mystery, Miracle, Morality, Interludes
Elizabethan &Jacobean Drama – Characteristics with reference to the University Wits

Unit IV

LATERDRAMA
Restoration Drama – Characteristics with reference to Congreve, Wycherley
Anti-sentimental comedy – Characteristics with reference to Goldsmith,
Sheridan

Unit V

NOVEL
18thCenturyNovel – Defoe, Fielding

SEC - 4 -Entrepreneurial Skill-205S3A

Unit I

Introduction to entrepreneurship, Role of Entrepreneurship, The Entrepreneurial Mindset, Characteristics of Entrepreneurship, Traits of Entrepreneurship

Unit II

Types of Entrepreneurship Skills: Business management skills, Teamwork and leadership skills, Communication and listening, Customer service skills, financial skills, Analytical and problem-solving skills, Critical thinking skills

Unit III

Introduction to various types of entrepreneurships, Strategic thinking and planning, Technical skills, Time management and organizational behavior, Branding

Unit IV

Marketing and networking skills, how to improve entrepreneurial skills, Entrepreneurial skills in the workplace, Introduction to import-export

Unit V

Entrepreneurial Imagination and Creativity, Environmental Protection and social responsibility of entrepreneur, discuss on source of entrepreneurship, Meeting with entrepreneurs

SEC 5 -Interview Skills-205S3B

Unit I

Definition of Interview- Essentials of Interview Skill

Unit II

Needs and Requirements of Interview skills

Unit III

Resume Preparation- Do’s and Don’ts of an interview

Unit IV

Body language-gesture-attitude-facial expression-sound knowledge

Unit V

Mock Interview- Conducting a role play for students to understand the skills learnt as an interviewee

Semester IV

Language II

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English II - 200L4Z

Unit I

GOAL SETTING (UNICEF)

  • Life Story
    1.1 From Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
    1.2 Why I Write – George Orwell
  • Short Essay
    1.3 On Personal Mastery – Robin Sharma
    1.4 On the Love of Life – William Hazlitt

Unit II

INTEGRITY

  • Short Story
    2.1The Taxi Driver – K.S. Duggal
    2.2 Kabuliwala – Rabindranath Tagore
    2.3 A Retrieved Reformation – O Henry
  • Extract from a play
    2.4 The Quality of Mercy (Trial Scene from the
    Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare)

Unit III

COPING WITH EMOTIONS

  • Poem
    3.1 Pride – Dahlia Ravikovitch
    3.2 Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou
  • Reader’s Theatre
    3.3 The Giant’s Wife A Tall Tale of Ireland –
    William Carleton
    3.4 The Princess and the God : A Tale of Ancient
    India

 Unit IV

Language Competency Sentences
4.1 Simple Sentences
4.2 Compound Sentences
4.3 Complex Sentences
Direct and Indirect Speech

Unit V

  • Report Writing
    5.1 Narrative Report
    5.2 Newspaper Report
  • Drafting Speeches
    5.3 Welcome Address
    5.4 Vote of Thanks

Core Paper VII –World Classics in Translation-205C4A

Unit I

1. Thiruvalluvar – Thirukkural – IniavaiKooral – Chapter 10
2. Dante – Paradiso , Canto XXI: The Seventh Sphere, Saturn
3. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – The Violet
4. Victor Hugo – Tomorrow at Dawn

Unit II

1. Ovid – Pyramus & Thisbe
2. Alexander Pushkin – The Gypsies
3. Horace – Satires
4. Gabriel Okara – The Mystic Drum

Unit III

1. Walter Benjamin – Unpacking My Library
2. Montaigne – Of Friendship

Unit IV

Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in search of an Author

Unit V

The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas  

 

Core Paper VIII-Language and Linguistics-205C4B

Unit I

Evolution of Standard English
-Descent of English Language from the Indo European family
– Old, Middle & Modern English
– Influence – Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian
– Growth of Vocabulary and Change of Meaning
Varieties of English – regional (Dialects) and International Vvarieites – British, American, Indian

Unit II

What is Linguistics
-Linguistics as a science – Nature and scope of Linguistics – Synchronic and Diachronic approaches-m – Branches of study- – Kinds of Linguistics – Descriptive, Comparative and Historical

Unit III

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology – The unphonetic character of English
– Orthography and the need for a phonetic script – phonetics , phonemics, phonics
– Organs of Speech, Different Region, and Air Stream Mechanisms.
– Segmental Phonemes – Consonants
– Definition– Articulation of individual Consonants
– Three term Label, FIVE point Description – Minimal Pairs- Contrastive Distribution, Phonetic Environment – Allophones –Complementary distribution and Free Variation
– Vowels – Definiton, Cardinal vowels , Vowel Chart
– Description of Vowels – Three Term label, Description of individual Vowels and Diphthongs
Syllable, Syllabic division, Syllabic Structure, Consonant clusters, Arresting and Releasing
consonants
– Stress and Intonation
– Suprasegmental features – Assimilation, Elision, Linking and Intrusive ‘r’

Unit IV

Morphology , Word Formation, Word Meaning
– Morphemes – Free and bound Morphemes
Affixes – Prefix , Suffix and Infix – Allomorphs – Zero morphemes Empty Morphemes Compound Words, Back formation Portmanteau words, Clipping of Words
Morphophonemics – Phonetic Realization of Plural, Past, Third Person Singular morphemes (pronunciation of – ed, -s &-es)
Word Meaning – Semantics
Word Meaning – Associative and Denotative Meaning – Seven Types of Meaning – Lexical
Relations – Semantic Roles – Semantic Field

Unit V

Grammar and Syntax
– Traditional Grammar – Fallacies and Demerits
– Structural Grammar – IC Analysis – Phrase Structure rules
Transformative Generative Grammar – Deep and Surface Structure – Competence and Performance , Transformation rules – Kernels and Transforms

Elective IV -History of English Literature-II-205E4A

Unit I

PROSE
Romantic Age- Lamb, Hazlitt
Victorian Age- Ruskin, Arnold
The Twentieth Century – Orwell, Huxley

Unit II

POETRY
Romantic Poetry – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley
Victorian Poetry – Tennyson ,Browning
The Twentieth Century – Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Yeats

Unit III

DRAMA
Revival of Drama – Oscar Wilde
The Twentieth Century – Various dramatic movements with reference to Shaw, T.S.
Eliot, Beckett

Unit IV

NOVEL
Romantic Age – Jane Austen, Walter Scott,
Victorian Age – Dickens, Hardy
The Twentieth Century – H.G. Wells, Golding

Unit V

TheNovelsince2000 – Irvin Welsh, Doris Lessing
Poetrysince2000 – Seamus Heaney, Edwin Morgan
Dramasince2000 – David Hare, David Edgar

SEC – 6 - English for Careers-205S4A

Unit I

Definition of English Language-Characteristic Features

Unit II

Purposes of English Language

Unit III

Major Roles played by English Language in Education and various career choices

Unit IV

English language as an identity to popular culture

Unit V

The major developments happening in the contemporary world by using English
language.

SEC 7 -English for Business-205S4B

Unit I

Business English Definition and Difference

Unit II

Highlights/Significance/Essentials of Business English

Unit III

Needs of Business English

Unit IV

The role of Business English in English language Learning-Education as an
instrumental factor in learning Business English.

Unit V

Economic Development through Business English

Environmental Studies

Unit I

Introduction to Environmental Studies
Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies;
Scope and importance; concept of sustainability and sustainable development.

Unit II

Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem? Structure and function of ecosystem; Energy flow in an
ecosystem:
Food chains, food webs and ecological succession, Case studies of the following
ecosystem:
a) Forest ecosystem
b) Grassland ecosystem
c) Desert ecosystem
d) Aquatic ecosystem (ponds, stream, lakes, rivers, ocean, estuaries)

Unit III

Natural Resources : Renewable and Non – renewable Resources

Land resources and land use change: Land degradation, soil erosion and desertification.
 Deforestation : Causes and impacts due to mining, dam building on environment,
forests, biodiversity and tribal populations.
 Water : Use and over – exploitation of surface and ground water, floods, droughts,
conflicts over water ( international and inter-state).
Energy resources : Renewable and non renewable energy sources, use of alternate
energy sources, growing energy needs, case studies.

Unit IV

Biodiversity and Conservation

Levels of biological diversity: genetics, species and ecosystem diversity,
Biogeographic zones of India: Biodiversity patterns and global biodiversity hot spots
India as a mega- biodiversity nation, Endangered and endemic species of India.
Threats to biodiversity: Habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, man- wildlife conflicts,
biological invasions; Conservations of biodiversity: In-situ and Ex-situ Conservation
of biodiversity.
Ecosystem and biodiversity services: Ecological, economic, social, ethical, aesthetic
and Informational value.

Unit V

Environmental Pollution

Environmental pollution: types, causes, effects and controls: Air, Water, soil and noise
Pollution.
 Nuclear hazards and human health risks
Solid waste management: Control measures of urban and industrial waste
Pollution case studies.

Unit VI

Environmental Policies & Practices

Climate change, global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain and impacts on
human communities and agriculture
Environment Laws: Environment Protection Act, Air (Prevention & Control of
Pollution) Act; Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution ) Act; Wildlife Protection
Act; Forest Conservation Act. International agreements: Montreal and Kyoto
protocols and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Nature reserves, tribal populations and rights, and human Wildlife conflicts in Indian
context.

Unit VII

Human Communities and the Environment

Human population growth, impacts on environment, human health and welfare.
Resettlement and rehabilitation of projects affected persons; case studies.
Disaster management: floods, earthquake, cyclone and landslides.
Environmental movements : Chipko, Silent Valley, Bishnois of Rajasthan.
Environmental ethics : Role of Indian and other religions and cultures in
environmental conservation.
Environmental communication and public awareness, case studies(e.g. CNG Vehicles
in Delhi)

Unit VIII

Field Work

Visit to an area to document environmental assets: river / forest/ flora/ fauna etc.
Visit to a local polluted site – Urban / Rural/ Industrial/ Agricultural.
Study of common plants, insects, birds and basic principles of identification.
Study of simple ecosystem- pond, river, Delhi Ridge etc.

 

Semester V

Core Paper IX - Women’s Writing -305C5A

Unit I

The four waves of women’s movement, the types of feminism, gynocriticism, Ecriture Feminine, Womanism, Feminine- Feminist-Female – phases in women’s writing

Unit II

1. Kamala Das – Introduction
2. ImtiazDharkar – Purdah
3. Maya Angelou – Still I Rise
4. Female of the Species – Gauri Deshpande
5. Anne Bradstreet – Prologue
6. Judith Wright – Eve to the Daughter

Unit III

1. Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own- Chapter III Shakespeare’s Sister
2. Sexual Politics – Kate Millett – Chapter 2 – The Theory of Sexual Politics – Part VIII – Psychological

Unit IV

Mahasweta Devi – Bayen

Unit V

1. Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
2. Ambai – In a forest, A Deer (Short Story)
3. Boys and Girls – Alice Munro (short story)

Core Paper X – Introduction to Folk Literature-305C5B

Unit I

Definition , Origin and development : Characteristics of Folk Literature Techniques of Folk Literature Major Forms of Folk Literature Myths, Legends, Ballads, Folk Songs, Folk Drama, Folk Tales, Folk Arts, Proverbs and Riddles

Unit II

Folk scholars of the world: Grimm Brothers, William John Thoms, V.J. Propp, Stith Thompson,
Levi Strauss, Alan Dundes
Approaches to the Study of Folklore:
1. Historical 2. Anthropological 3. Psychological

Unit III

Fables of Aesop:
1. The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf
2. The Fox and the grapes
Tell Me Why -Pourquoi Tales
1. “Why the Sun and Moon live in the Sky?” by Julius Lester
2. “How Turtle flew South for Winter?” by Joseph Bruchac
Folk Tales of A.K. Ramanujam
1. “Brother’s Day” (Bhai Dooj)
2. “Bopoluchi”
Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India – “The Soothsayer’s Son”
South- African Folk Tales – “The Monkey’s Fiddle”
Legends from India by Ruskin Bond
1. -Tales from the Epics -“King Bharata”
2. -Tales from Jataka- “Who’ll buy my Mangoes”
3. -Regional Tales and Legends -“The Wicked Guru”
The Panchatantra [Translated from Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder]
1. “Loss of Friends” [ Book 1- Story 1]
2. “Cat’s Judgment” [Book 3]

Unit IV

Folksong:
John Keats
-”La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (With reference to Femme
Fatale: Adaptation of a folk ballad)
-”Eve of St.Agnes” (Superstition about a maiden’s dream)
Song 1 from The Djanggawul Song Cycle ( from Djanggawul by Ronald M.Berndt)

Unit V

Girish Karnad – Nagamandala

Core Paper XI - Indian Writing in Translation

Unit I

1. What is regional literature?
2. What is the role of translation in extending its readership?
3. What defines the concept of Indian Literature?
4. What are the concepts of „Agam and Puram?
5. What is the Theory of Nine Rasas in Indian Aesthetics?

Unit II

1. Ilango Adigal – The Book of Vanci – Silappathikaram
2. IlankiranarNarrinai 3 (57)-“What He Said ”(from Love and War Poems
by A.K.Ramanujam)
3. Bharathiyar– “KaatruVeliyidai”
4. Mirza Arif- “Six Rubaiiyats”
5. Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali – (34,35,36)
6. Daya Pawar – “The Buddha”

Unit III

1. SharathchanraMukthibodh-“What is Dalit Literature?” (Selection from
Poisoned Bread –Arjun Dangle)
2. P.Sivakami – “ Land:Women‟s Breadth and Speech”

Unit IV

Vijay Tendulkar – Kanyadaan

Unit V

Thakazhi Siva Shankara Pillai – Chemeen

Core Paper 12 - Project - 305C5D

Project on English Literature or English Language or Films/TV Serials/ Web series or
Media or any other related domain.
20 pages Project report with appropriate documentation to be submitted for evaluation.

Elective V - Literary Forms - 305E5A

UNIT I

POETRY
1. Subjective Poetry – The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Elegy, The Ode
2. Narrative Poetry – Ballad, Epic, Satire, Dramatic Monologue

Unit II

PROSE I
1. The Essay – Definition, Characteristics, Development
2. Types – Personal and Impersonal Essay

Unit III

PROSE II
1. The Aphoristic Essay, The Periodical Essay, The Reviewers
2. The Short Story, Autobiography, Biography, Criticism.

Unit IV

DRAMA
Tragedy, Comedy – Characteristics, Development, Types,
Melodrama, Farce, Masque

Unit V

NOVEL
The Characteristics, Development
Types – The Picaresque Novel, Epistolary Novel
The Gothic Novel, The Science Fiction,
The Stream of Consciousness Novel.

Elective VI - 305E5B-Literature and Environment (or) 305E5C - Life Writings (or) 305E5D - Myth and Literature

Value Education

Unit I

Value education-its purpose and significance in the present world – Value system – The role
of culture and civilization – Holistic living – balancing the outer and inner – Body, Mind
and Intellectual level – Duties and responsibilities.

Unit II

Salient values for life – Truth, commitment, honesty and integrity, forgiveness and love,
empathy and ability to sacrifice, care, unity, and inclusiveness, Self esteem and self
confidence, punctuality – Time, task and resource management – Problem solving and
decision making skills – Interpersonal and Intra personal relationship – Team work –
Positive and creative thinking.

Unit III

Human Rights – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Human Rights violations –
National Integration – Peace and non-violence – Dr.A P J Kalam’s ten points for
enlightened citizenship – Social Values and Welfare of the citizen – The role of media in
value building.

Unit IV

Environment and Ecological balance – interdependence of all beings – living and non-living.
The binding of man and nature – Environment conservation and enrichment.

Unit V

Social Evils – Corruption, Cyber crime, Terrorism – Alcoholism, Drug addiction – Dowry –
Domestic violence – untouchability – female infanticide – atrocities against women – How
to tackle them.

Summer Internship/Industrial Training

Semester VI

Core Paper XIII - Literary Criticism -305C6A

Unit I

Schools of Literary Theory and Critical Thought
From the Greeks to 21st Century – A brief overview with timeline

Unit II

Classical Theory and Criticism – Plato, Aristotle and Sir Philip Sidney

Unit III

19th Century Theory and Criticism
Dr. Johnson, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, John Keats

Unit IV

20th Century Theory and Criticism
Formalism and New Criticism, Marxism, New Historicism, Modernism, Post
Modernism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism

Unit V

20th Century Theory and Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminist Theories, Post colonialism, Ecocriticism

Core Paper XIV - New Literatures In English - 305C6B

Unit I

1. Derek Walcott (African) – A Far Cry from Africa
2. YasminGoonarantne (South Asia / Sri Lanka) – Big Match
3. Judith Wright (Australian) – The Company of Lovers
4. E.J. Pratt (Canadian) – The Dying Eagle
5. Allen Curnow (New Zealand) – House and Land

Unit II

1. NgugiwaThinong’o (African): “The Language of African Literature’.
Chapter 1 from Decolonizing the minds” The Politics of Language in
African Literature, pp 4-34
2. Aung San Suukyi (Burmese)” Freedom from Fear”
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/assk/sakharovessay.html.

Unit III

Wole Soyinka (Africa) – The Lion and the Jewel

Unit IV

Guan Moye (Mo Yan/ Chinese) – Red Sorghum

Unit V

Short Stories
1. Amy Hempel (Caribbean) – In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
2. Albert Wendt(Samoa) –A Resurrection

Core Paper XV – Shakespeare - 305C6C

Unit I

General Studies
1. Shakespeare‟s Comedy
2. Shakespeare‟s Theatre and Audience
3. Fools and Clowns of Shakespeare
4. Tragedies of Shakespeare
5. Soliloquies of Shakespeare
6. Heroines of Shakespeare
7. Villains of Shakespeare
8. Sonnets of Shakespeare

Unit II

Sonnet – 2,17,28,56 and 121

Unit III

The Twelfth Night – Detailed

Unit IV

Macbeth – Non detailed

Unit V

The Tempest – Non detailed

 

Elective VII - 305E6A- English Language Teaching (or) 305E6B - Film Studies (or) 305E6C - English for Technical Writing

Elective VIII- 305E6D - Journalism and Mass Communication (or) 305E6E - Media Communication and Publication (or) 305E6F - Travel Writing

Professional Competency Skill – English For Competitive Examinations - 305S6A

Unit I

Literature of the Absurd, Aestheticism, Allegory, Beat Writers, Black Arts Movement, Bloomsbury Group, Burlesque.

Unit II

Canons of Literature, Comedy, Confessional Poetry, Didactic Literature, Dissociation of Sensibility, Dream Vision

Unit III

Elegy, Epithet, Expressionism, Figurative Language, Gender Criticism, Great Chain of Being

Unit IV

Haiku, Heroic Couplet, Human rights literature, Irony, Imagism Ivory Tower

Unit V

Jeremiad, Linguistics Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Modernism and Post Modernism, Myth

 

Extension Activity